Quotes about Authority Struggle

Agustin de Iturbide

I lack the strength needed to sustain the scepter. I abhorred it, but in the end I agreed to accept it in order to prevent evils to the country which was about to succumb anew, if not to the former slavery, at least to the horrors of anarchy.

Bhagat Singh

There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are terrified. As a result, they have started sending their families to Britain. After some time, they will realise that they cannot exercise authority over India.

J. K. Rowling

They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat. "Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper. "Make Harry get it." "Get the mail, Harry." "Make Dudley get it." "Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.

Peter the Great

If my advice is lost on the wind and you will not do as I wish, then I do not recognize you as my son…. I see that you go at too lazy a pace in these crucial days to concern yourself with business…. I grow worried when I see you, the heir to the throne, who are so very useless for the conduct of state affairs….How often have I not scolded you for this, and not merely scolded you but beaten you... but nothing has succeeded, nothing is any use, all is to no purpose, all is words spoken to the wind, and you want to do nothing but sit at home and enjoy yourself….But if you do not change for the better, understand that I shall deprive you of the succession and cast you off like a gangrened limb.

Peter was totally unusual as a Russian monarch in that he personally worked very hard at being a ruler. He read profusely, traveled to get new ideas, talked to learned people throughout Europe, did not trust heavy drinkers. His son, brought up in the Kremlin was more like the traditional Russian nobility—alcoholic spendthrifts. When Peter threatened to disinherit his son, Alexis fell in with plotters against the Czar. When Peter discovered this, he had his own son executed in July 1718.

Beth Moore

No matter what authority Satan and his subjects have temporarily been allowed in this world system, Christ can pull rank anytime He wants to.

Emmanuel Jal

When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.

John Calvin

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

George Browne

His highness' viceroy of this nation is of little or no power with the old natives. Now both English and Irish begin to oppose your lordship's orders, and to lay aside their national quarrels

Browne, an Englishman by birth, was the instrument of the Protestant Reformation in Ireland.

Alvin Toffler

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

Authority Struggle Quotes